{"quotes":[{"text":"And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity. --The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth).","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["dostoevsky","mankind","russian-literature"],"id":39243,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["inspirational","literature","nikolai-gogol","russian-literature"],"id":66615,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whether he lives or doesn't live, he himself will be God. And that other God will no longer be.''So, that other God does exist, in your opinion?''He doesn't exist, but he does exist. In the stone there' no pain, but in the fear of the stone there is pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. Whoever conquers pain and fear will himself become God.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["classics","death","demons","dostoyevsky","fyodor-dostoyevsky","god","russia","russian","russian-lit","russian-literature","suicide"],"id":75901,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!' #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion.","author":"OlgaGOA","tags":["book","book","book-worm","books","english","italian","italian-literature","italy","love","lovequotes","passion","rome","russia","russian","russian-literature","saintpetersburg"],"id":82596,"author_id":"OlgaGOA"},{"text":"These ordained atheists cultivate their egoism, the source of every atheist's activity, but they defile it and it becomes repulsive whereas the egoism of good atheists is a beautiful principle. They preach raging sermons not because they fear for the eternal damnation of their fold, but because they fear for the eternal damnation of their gold; before every sermon they feel their pockets to see if there's a hole, and if there is, they mend it with a sermon instead of a patch.","author":"N.G. Pomyalovsky","tags":["atheism","christianity","russian-literature"],"id":86399,"author_id":"N.G.+Pomyalovsky"},{"text":"Since the moment when, at the sight of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions of life and death in the light of the new convictions, as he called them, which between the ages of twenty and thirty-four had imperceptibly replaced the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he had been less horrified by death than by life without the least knowledge of whence it came, what it is for, why, and what it is, Organisms, their destruction, the indestructibility of matter, the law of the conservation of energy, development—the terms that had superseded these beliefs—were very useful for mental purposes; but they gave no guidance for life, and Levin suddenly felt like a person who has exchanged a thick fur coat for a muslin garment and who, being out in the frost for the first time, becomes clearly convinced, not by arguments, but with the whole of his being, that he is as good as naked and that he must inevitably perish miserably.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["manners","novel","realist-fiction","russian-literature","society-novel"],"id":97705,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her'. #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion:.","author":"Olga Goa","tags":["book","book","book-worm","books","english","italian","italian-literature","italianpassion","italy","love","lovequotes","passion","quotes","rome","russia","russian","russian-literature","saintpetersburg"],"id":107749,"author_id":"Olga+Goa"},{"text":"All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most… .","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["classics","crime-and-punishment","dostoevsky","dostoyevski","dostoyevsky","life","life-philosophy","life","russian-literature"],"id":114281,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["hard-hearted","revolution","russian-literature","russian-revolution"],"id":117833,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov, Bely, Remizov, and, in certain aspects of their work, also by Babel and Bulgakov. It is a tradition, paradoxically, of experimenters and innovators. Perhaps the principal quality that unites them is their approach to reality and its uses in art - the refusal to be bound by literal fact, the interweaving of reality and fantasy, the transmutation of fact into poetry, often grotesque, oblique, playful, but always expressive of the writer's unique vision of life in his own, unique terms.","author":"Mirra Ginsburg","tags":["fantasy","realism","russian-","russian-literature","writers","writing","zamyatin"],"id":140334,"author_id":"Mirra+Ginsburg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}